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LearnAndRecord 2022-07-26

Boris Johnson's first speech as Prime Minister: 24 July 2019

全文:

Good afternoon.


I have just been to see Her Majesty the Queen who has invited me to form a government and I have accepted


I pay tribute to the fortitude and patience of my predecessor


and her deep sense of public service


but in spite of all her efforts it has become clear that there are pessimists at home and abroad


who think that after three years of indecision


that this country has become a prisoner to the old arguments of 2016


and that in this home of democracy we are incapable of honouring a basic democratic mandate


And so I am standing before you today to tell you


the British people


that those critics are wrong


The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters – they are going to get it wrong again


The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts


because we are going to restore trust in our democracy


and we are going to fulfil the repeated promises of parliament to the people and come out of the EU on October 31


no ifs or buts


and we will do a new deal, a better deal that will maximise the opportunities of Brexit while allowing us to develop a new and exciting partnership with the rest of Europe


based on free trade and mutual support


I have every confidence that in 99 days’ time we will have cracked it


but you know what – we aren’t going to wait 99 days


because the British people have had enough of waiting


The time has come to act,


to take decisions


to give strong leadership and to change this country for the better


and though the Queen has just honoured me with this extraordinary office of state


my job is to serve you, the people


because if there is one point we politicians need to remember it is that the people are our bosses


My job is to make your streets safer – and we are going to begin with another 20,000 police on the streets


and we start recruiting forthwith


My job is to make sure you don’t have to wait 3 weeks to see your GP


and we start work this week with 20 new hospital upgrades, and ensuring that money for the NHS really does get to the front line


My job is to protect you or your parents or grandparents from the fear of having to sell your home to pay for the costs of care


and so I am announcing now – on the steps of Downing Street – that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared


to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve


My job is to make sure your kids get a superb education


wherever they are in the country


and that’s why we have already announced that we are going to level up per pupil funding in primary and secondary schools


and that is the work that begins immediately behind that black door


and though I am today building a great team of men and women I will take personal responsibility


for the change I want to see


Never mind the backstop – the buck stops here


And I will tell you something else about my job.


It is to be Prime Minister of the whole United Kingdom


and that means uniting our country


answering at last the plea of the forgotten people


and the left behind towns


by physically and literally renewing the ties that bind us together


so that with safer streets and better education and fantastic new road and rail infrastructure and full fibre broadband


we level up across Britain


with higher wages, and a higher living wage, and higher productivity


we close the opportunity gap


giving millions of young people the chance to own their own homes


and giving business the confidence to invest across the UK


because it is time we unleashed the productive power not just of London and the South East


but of every corner of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland


the awesome foursome that are incarnated in that red white and blue flag


who together are so much more than the sum of their parts


and whose brand and political personality is admired and even loved around the world


for our inventiveness, for our humour, for our universities, our scientists, our armed forces, our diplomacy


for the equalities on which we insist – whether race or gender or LGBT or the right of every girl in the world to 12 years of quality education


and for the values we stand for around the world


Everyone knows the values that flag represents


It stands for freedom and free speech and habeas corpus and the rule of law


and above all it stands for democracy


and that is why we will come out of the EU on October 31


because in the end Brexit was a fundamental decision by the British people that they wanted their laws made by people that they can elect


and they can remove from office


and we must now respect that decision


and create a new partnership with our European friends – as warm and as close and as affectionate as possible


and the first step is to repeat unequivocally our guarantee to the 3.2 m EU nationals now living and working among us


and I say directly to you – thank you for your contribution to our society


thank you for your patience and I can assure you that under this government you will get the absolute certainty of the rights


to live and remain


And next I say to our friends in Ireland, and in Brussels and around the EU


I am convinced that we can do a deal


without checks at the Irish border, because we refuse under any circumstances to have such checks


and yet without that anti-democratic backstop


and it is of course vital at the same time that we prepare for the remote possibility


that Brussels refuses any further to negotiate


and we are forced to come out with no deal


not because we want that outcome – of course not


but because it is only common sense to prepare


and let me stress that there is a vital sense in which those preparations cannot be wasted


and that is because under any circumstances we will need to get ready


at some point in the near future


to come out of the EU customs union and out of regulatory control


fully determined at last to take advantage of brexit


because that is the course on which this country is now set


with high hearts and growing confidence we will now accelerate the work of getting ready


and the ports will be ready and the banks will be ready


and the factories will be ready


and business will be ready


and the hospitals will be ready


and our amazing food and farming sector will be ready and waiting to continue selling


ever more not just here but around the world


and don’t forget that in the event of a no deal outcome we will have the extra lubrication of the £39 bn


and whatever deal we do we will prepare this autumn for an economic package


to boost British business and to lengthen this country’s lead as the number one destination in this continent for overseas investment


and to all those who continue to prophesy disaster


I say yes – there will be difficulties


though I believe that with energy and application they will be far less serious than some have claimed


but if there is one thing that has really sapped the confidence of business over the last three years


it is not the decisions we have taken


it is our refusal to take decisions


and to all those who say we cannot be ready


I say do not underestimate this country


Do not underestimate our powers of organisation and our determination


because we know the enormous strengths of this economy


in life sciences, in tech, in academia, in music, the arts, culture, financial services,


It is here in Britain that we are using gene therapy, for the first time, to treat the most common form of blindness


here in Britain that we are leading the world in the battery technology that will help cut CO2 and tackle climate change


and produce green jobs for the next generation


and as we prepare for a post-Brexit future it is time we looked not at the risks but at the opportunities that are upon us


so let us begin work now to create freeports that will drive growth and thousands of high-skilled jobs in left behind areas


let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti genetic modification rules


and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world


let’s get going now on our own position navigation and timing satellite and earth observation systems – UK assets orbiting in space with all the long term strategic and commercial benefits for this country


Let’s change the tax rules to provide extra incentives to invest in capital and research


and let’s promote the welfare of animals that has always been so close to the hearts of the British people


and yes, let’s start now on those free trade deals


because it is free trade that has done more than anything else to lift billions out of poverty


all this and more we can do now and only now, at this extraordinary moment in our history


and after three years of unfounded self-doubt it is time to


change the record


to recover our natural and historic role as an enterprising, outward-looking and truly global Britain, generous in temper and engaged with the world


No one in the last few centuries has succeeded in betting against the pluck and nerve and ambition of this country


They will not succeed today


We in this government will work flat out to give this country the leadership it deserves


and that work begins now


Thank you very much!


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